カテゴリー: Politics
State TV says Kyaw Zwar Minn is being recalled for releasing an unauthorised statementMyanmar’s military regime has recalled the country’s ambassador to the UK after he declared his opposition to last month’s coup and issued a statement demanding the r…
Lawyer for Ponnampalam Jothibala threatens to file for judicial review over handling of caseA man who came to the UK to train as an accountant almost 40 years ago has been left homeless after a catalogue of Home Office delays.Ponnampalam Jothibala, 69,…
Nearly 140 parliamentarians warn trumped-up charges could result in death penalty for Jagtar Singh JohalNearly 140 MPs and peers have written to Dominic Raab urging him to do more to secure the release of a young Sikh man facing the death penalty in In…
Chinese newspaper said countries that boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics over treatment of Uighurs would face retaliationThe Liberal Democrats have warned China against “international bullying” after a call by UK MPs for countries to boycott the 2022…
MI5 concluded three Beijing security ministry employees used cover of working for Chinese press agenciesBritain quietly expelled three Chinese spies last year who it said were posing as journalists, it has emerged, as tensions flare between the two cou…
European commission will come under fire over agreement that is already causing tensions with USTransatlantic tensions over how to handle China will come into the open next week when MEPs condemn the European commission for rushing to sign a controvers…
John Morrison and Sam Watson on Dominic Raab’s commitment to fine businesses over modern-day slavery in supply chainsThe commitment made by Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, to strengthen businesses’ supply chain requirements under the Modern Slaver…
High court could rule on whether Uighur people are suffering genocide in China if amendment passesThe Foreign Office was facing a battle to stave off a parliamentary defeat after the Board of Deputies of British Jews said it was backing calls for the B…
Foreign secretary sets out measures to ensure UK companies cannot profit from forced labour in XinjiangChina’s treatment of the Uighur people amounts to torture, the British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has said as he set out measures designed to e…
Exclusive: Akshata Murty owns 5% of IMM, which used structure that could reduce taxes payable in India The wife of the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is a shareholder in a restaurants business that funnelled investments through a letterbox company in the tax…
Exclusive: Thinktank urges UK to build democratic counterweight to China’s growing influenceThe UK should make a major post-Brexit tilt towards the Indo-Pacific region, ploughing military, financial and diplomatic resources into building a major democr…
Met police investigating allegations of war crimes by private firm Keenie Meenie ServicesThe Foreign Office is resisting publishing files relating to its diplomatic support for British mercenaries in Sri Lanka in the 1980s, despite the Metropolitan pol…
UK foreign secretary says banning of opposition lawmakers is ‘clear breach’ of Sino-British joint declarationBeijing’s imposition of new rules disqualifying opposition legislators in Hong Kong constitutes a breach of legally binding international commi…
Exclusive: Dozens of MPs and peers write to UK foreign secretary, saying Beijing cannot be allowed to imprison activists on mainland ‘with little outcry or response’More than 60 UK MPs and peers have written to Dominic Raab calling on him to demand the…
Foreign secretary condemns ‘cynical and reckless’ bid to disrupt Games, before they were postponedRussian military intelligence services were planning a cyber-attack on the Japanese-hosted Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo this summer in a bid to disru…